Mutterings of a Mad Woman

No time for an update or long ramble about where the heck I've been. I will, however, say that my absence from Facebook is a result of them suddenly wiping my account from the internet, probably because my page was registered under Ghoul Friday. No warning. No threat. No option to change the registration (you can't actually transfer ownership of an existing Facebook Artist Page to another registered profile once it's been created). One day it was there, and the next it wasn't.

In just over an hour, I will be hiding behind a pillow, mortified to see myself on Innerspace. The experience with the team who came to the house was fantastic. They made great efforts to make me feel relaxed despite my neurotic shyness and aversion to putting a spotlight directly on myself. And there was an actual spotlight to face along with the lens of a camera. As readers know, I generally avoid posting images or videos of myself online so this is a leap outside my comfort zone.

In honour of SPACEchannel coming to the house, I wanted to get my images from Universal Studios Florida posted, featuring their Face Off models in wickedly wonderful costumes.

Next time I need to attend Halloween Horror Nights twice: once to look around, and once with a tripod! Considering these are all handheld photos taken at night, I think they came out pretty well.

It is with no great exaggeration that I say it's been a busy month. I was a vendor at the Bazaar of the Bizarre, submitted pieces for Nightmare on Queen St at 416 Gallery in Toronto and attended the opening night masquerade party last night (404 Queen St E if you want to go have a peek), and had two days to decorate for SPACE Channel (Canada's SyFy equivalent for my American readers). I love sharing my work but the idea of being on camera made me hide under the couch. The episode actually airs this evening at 6:00 EST on Innerspace.

With so much on my plate (not to mention an impending November move), I decided I would have my Halloween fun at the start of the month. I went with friends to Orlando for 5 days. One of our stops was to Universal Studios for their Halloween Horror Nights.

I've decided to go through some of my pictures today and post a few for you. We'll start with "The Purge". I didn't have a tripod with me, so most of the photos are in the daytime for this streetscape. Luckily I did manage to get some fine night shots in other areas.

But for now, some daytime shots of what it's like to be immersed in a city where the culling of people is encouraged. Smoke and the sound of gunfire fill the air. And even in the sunlight, it's impressive.

Happy October! I've been celebrating the best month of the year in Orlando, eating up all the Halloween activities I could stuff into a few days (pictures soon). Now that I'm back, I realize I need to tell folks what the heck is happening this month.

I wanted to start making art people could hang. I know that shelf space is sometimes limited, and personally I like having cool things on my walls. I came up with the Catacomb Creations. Each one has a small wire loop that allows you to hang the item, but it's also hidden so you can display it any way you want.

I have no idea how we've arrived in August, but Fan Expo is about to raise the circus tent in Toronto in less than two weeks. Despite my apparent black outs when it comes to time, my muscle memory has been hard at work, creating new beasties for the big weekend.

The site broke after Halloween. While my secret ninja web skills made it so published content could be viewed, the bug still remained that prevented me from uploading new content. Between work, ice storms, dealing with a small forest of downed tree limbs (still ongoing), and all that icky life stuff, we couldn't spend time to fix it until the new year.

Spring is when most people reorganize their houses. I, on the other hand, get obsessed with such tasks in the winter. Usually it's because I've turned my work spaces upside down by the time the chaos that is Halloween arrives. Full throttle creation leaves no extra time for proper storage of show gear or art supplies. never mind normal house stuff like hanging artwork that's been sitting around for months, or figuring out what special sort of light bulb you need for the ancient fixture in the bathroom.

And that's what I've been doing these last couple of months while waiting for the site to be fixed.

I even created a little nook of homage to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween in my office.

As we near February, I plan to finally start updating the site and maybe even start creating again. Wouldn't that be nice?